Epic Games websites and forums recently hacked

Epic has sent out emails to those how are registered on its website and forums that they have a new password after the site got hacked.

Here’s the email in full:

Our Epic Games web sites and forums were recently hacked. After some downtime, they’re back up and running now.

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The hackers may have obtained the email addresses and encrypted passwords of forum users. Plaintext passwords weren’t revealed, but it’s possible that those passwords could be obtained by a brute-force attack on the encrypted passwords. Therefore, we have reset all passwords. Your new password at the bottom of this message.